Obscene, Instagram? That's a stretch
Stretch marks are obscene - according to Instagram. The Daily Telegraph reported on their website that Scottish mother of twins Hannah Moore, 20, posted the photo of her belly only for her account to be removed for inappropriate "nudity and violence" a mere two minutes later.Moore told the Daily Telegraph website that Instagram's censure made her feel as if her body was " ugly and disgusting".Her sense of outrage was compounded by the fact that in her caption for the photo, she expressed " how unconfident I had always been, how relationships have been hard and how hard it is to find clothes that I like".Moore said that the purpose of the picture was to convince women "to love their size because everyone is beautiful".Instagram claimed the incident was "a technical mistake" and a spokesman confirmed that Moore's account has since been restored...
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